Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun pl] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Work on the two drainage ditches to keep water off the deck has now been completed and we have now done some work to provide steps down to trackbed level . |
| 2 | Experienced credit managers will be well aware that once a pattern of payment is established , it is difficult to coax customers out of that pattern . |
| 3 | But with monthly payment , money balances will be held to meet expenditures up to one month in the future . |
| 4 | Memory managers help , of course — the ability to load drivers up into Upper Memory Blocks is very helpful — but you 've often got drivers you 're rarely going to need taking up memory . |
| 5 | He was very tempted to hurry developments along in that area , but with things as they were he decided he ought to play it very carefully . |
| 6 | Teller was obsessed by the Super and although he contributed many valuable ideas to the fission project he declined to devote his time to the solid work required to see things through to practical conclusion . |
| 7 | A variation was to drive cattle on to cultivated land , and then have damages assessed at the full value of the animals . |
| 8 | The advantages of being able to run baits out to any spot within range of your radio signal are obvious even to an objector and to sit on a reservoir bank as electro-man catches pike on free-lined herrings at 200 yards , whilst my weapon hangs limp in the still air waiting for a stiff breeze has been frustrating . |
| 9 | 7 Turn sharp right after 100 yds to climb steps up to High Cliff ( NT sign ) . |
| 10 | Attempts by Côte d'Ivoire , the world 's largest producer , to keep prices up by withholding stock also foundered amidst the country 's worsening debt crisis [ see p. 36676 ] . |
| 11 | Education was important too for the Pooters , if only to keep children out of manual work , even though the multitude of clerks ' jobs were often less well paid — £70 per year — than much manual work . |
| 12 | While the Association will never pursue members with the determination of a Time-Share salesperson , it does n't like to lose members , particularly those who are just too forgetful to get subscriptions off in good time . |
| 13 | This propensity to seek damages out of all proportion to the alleged negligence must be stopped ; otherwise the time will inevitably come , and soon , when promising young accountants will not be attracted by partnership in accounting firms , as they will not wish to put their personal wealth at risk . |
| 14 | Remember to get requisitions off in good time after your investigation . |
| 15 | Providing that there was no threat to their members ' jobs , trades unions felt that they had a free hand in wage negotiations , often seeming to pluck numbers out of thin air and try it on with employers . |
| 16 | The Left believed , and there is little evidence to the contrary even after 30 years of " revisionist " history , that the National government was willing to make concessions out of all proportion to those necessary and that it was supported by influential people who were quite willing to see Hitler at war with the Soviet Union . |
| 17 | I learnt how to make shoes out of brown paper . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm going to bed , Emily , ’ he said , his voice slurred , ‘ I do n't think I 'll bother to go to my office tomorrow , it would only be in order to wind matters up in any case . ’ |
| 19 | The company provided a coach to bring children back to this country . |